Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAREDUDD ap RHYS - see MEREDYDD ap RHYS
MAREDUDD ap RHYS GRYG (d. 1271), prince of Deheubarth Llewelyn in 1261 were severe, but his services to the royal cause were rewarded by the deliberate retention of his homage by the king in the peace of Montgomery (1267). In 1270 this homage was conceded to Llywelyn. Maredudd died on 27 July 1271, at Dryslwyn, and was buried at Whitland abbey. Rhys ap Maredudd was his son.
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), to the honour of Carmarthen - the commotes of Ystlwyf and Emlyn above Cuch which the earl then granted to Maredudd ap Rhys Grug. After succeeding to the earldom (1234) he seems to have played no important part in Welsh affairs. ANSELM MARSHAL (died 1245) He was the last of the sons of William Marshal the regent, and died in December 1245, before he was invested with the earldom. Like his brothers
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel He was the leader of the Glamorgan insurgents during the rising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5. Owing to personal grievances against the De Clares, he claimed to be at war only against the lords of Glamorgan. He may, therefore, have been Morgan ap Maredudd, a direct descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn; his father, Maredudd, the last native lord of Caerleon, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan charters which Morgan gave to Margam abbey, Lleision and OWAIN are frequently mentioned as co-donors with their father. It would seem that Owain died before Lleision, but dates are uncertain, many of the charters being undated or wrongly dated. Welsh sub-lordships under the suzerainty of the Norman lords of Glamorgan were granted to other members of Iestyn ap Gwrgant's family. To MAREDUDD ap Caradog ap
MORTIMER family Wigmore, captured the prince Rhys ap Hywel. He was also responsible for the death of Maredudd ap Madog ab Idnerth in 1146. ROGER de MORTIMER was imprisoned for two years in 1179 owing to his followers having been involved in the death of Cadwallon ap Madog, and in 1191 he was banished for three years, this time on a charge of conspiring with the Welsh against the king. He returned in due course, and in 1195 drove
MORTIMER, ROGER de (1256? - 1326), lord of Chirk part in the attempts to suppress the rebellion of Rhys ap Maredudd, lord of Ystrad Tywi, 1287-8. In July 1287 he was requested to provide 400 footmen, and in November 1287 and 1288 was again directed to take various measures against the rebellious lord. Towards the end of Edward I's reign he incurred the king's displeasure and fell into disfavour for a while. The accession of Edward II, however
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1236), prince of Deheubarth ' Rhys's dominions in 1216 gave him lands north of the Aeron, which were extended to cover the greater part of northern Ceredigion when Rhys Ieuanc died in 1222. He died at Strata Florida on 18 January 1236 and was buried there alongside his parents and brother. He was succeeded by one son - Maredudd.
OWAIN BROGYNTYN (fl. 1160-1188), prince of Powys He was a natural son of Madog ap Maredudd, the last king of Powys. Brought up at Porkington, near Oswestry (Madog held the lordship of Oswestry from 1149 to 1157), a township known among the Welsh as Brogyntyn, he appears to have continued on very good terms with Henry II after his father's death in 1160, for he is recorded as being a royal pensioner as late as 1169. He was still alive in 1188
OWAIN CYFEILIOG (c. 1130 - 1197), prince and poet Son of Gruffudd, brother of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys. In 1149 Madog appointed him under-lord of Cyfeiliog. About 1153 Rhys ap Gruffydd attacked this commote, and although Owain was later to marry his daughter, they remained enemies for years. After the death of Madog in 1160, Owain held Cyfeiliog on his own account, and in 1163 he joined, with Owain Fychan, to capture and destroy the
OWAIN FYCHAN ap MADOG ap MAREDUDD (d. 1187), prince of Powys He was one of the sons of Madog ap Maredudd by Susanna, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan. His share of his father's territories, according to a contemporary poem, lay in Mechain, Cynllaith, and Mochnant-is-Rhaeadr, wedged between the dominions of his eldest brother, Gruffydd ap Madog, and those of his cousin, Owen Cyfeiliog. A minor prince of more than ordinary personality, he met his end at Gwern-y
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' Son and heir of Gruffydd Fychan (II) ap Madog ap Gruffydd Fychan (I), barons of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith Owain in northern Powys, once held in its entirety by Gruffydd Maelor II, father of Gruffydd Fychan I; he was thus descended from Madog ap Maredudd, last king of united Powys, and in him reposed claims of succession to that ancient province. His mother was Helen, daughter and co-heiress to

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